Auction on
20 February 2022 - 14:00 (CET) -
28, rue Pierre-Mendès-France - 27400 Louviers
A perfectly minted silver coin from the third century BCE, featuring a Greek profile, recalls the syncretic culture of the great city of Carthage, then at the height of its power.
Siculo-punic coinage. Silver decadrachm (c. 260 B.C.E), 38.16 g. Head of Persephone left, crowned with ears of wheat, wearing earrings; on reverse, Pegasus leaping right. Below, "BARZTH" in Punic characters. Great rarity, superb. Estimate: €20,000/30,000
Siculo-punic coinage. Silver decadrachm (c. 260 B.C.E), 38.16 g. Head of Persephone left, crowned with ears of wheat, wearing earrings; on reverse, Pegasus leaping right. Below, "BARZTH" in Punic characters. Great rarity, superb. Estimate: €20,000/30,000
For three decades—from about 1930 to 1960—this soon-to-be-dispersed collection of seventy-two Greek silver coins was patiently collected by two generations of the same French family. Very discerning, these connoisseurs bought only at prestigious sales or through the best Parisian brokers. Thus guaranteed the condition, often exceptional, of their acquisitions, the refinement of the motifs engraved on each side of the coins, face, animal…
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